The answer lies in genetics and a dogged quest for immunity from blight.
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Take these steps to grow tomatoes successfully
Columnist Tom Atwell has learned the hard way to pay more attention to his tomato plants. Last year, he got just two slicer tomatoes. (The wet weather was no help.)
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The plan for this garden is, well, let’s just call it casual
Tom and Nancy Atwell practice a style of landscape design they call ‘design with shovel.’
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A Mainer took refuge in her garden during COVID, then wrote about it
In the understated and evocatively written ‘A Gardener at the End of the World,’ Margot Anne Kelley muses on time, pandemics and plants.
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Reducing the lawn, two bricks at a time
Columnist Tom Atwell is moving garden pathways this summer to make room for more garden and less lawn.
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Better late than never to plant those vegetables and flowers
Although it’s already mid-June, you can still plant both vegetables and flowers. ‘Truth is planting time is anytime you find a plant – or maybe even a seed – that you want to plant.’
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Some gardeners like to garden. Some just like the results
If you’re in the second camp, these tips may nudge you toward the first.
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Enjoy the lazy, hazy days of summer by planting perennial fruit and vegetables
Plant once, but harvest for years. More food, less effort.
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Divide and conquer: Spring is a good time to divide perennials
We were walking through a garden recently when we noticed some baptisia that looked really good, with healthy leaves ready to produce gorgeous blossoms later in the year. My wife and fellow gardener, Nancy, immediately suggested that it was encroaching on its neighbors and that we should dig it up and divide it, moving half […]
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Boothbay botanical garden gets a gift of irises
The late Currier McEwen of Harpswell hybridized dozens of Siberian irises. A collection of his irises will go on display at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.